Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Craig vs Carrier - Redux

This was an interesting debate. William Lane Craig was a great as always. I like his Resurrection arguments. I have to admit that Richard Carrier is completely wrong. My only criticism of Craig is that I wish that he would spend more time defending the Bible when his opponent challenges the Bible's validity. Carrier spends his time arguing that the Gospels are merely symbolic fiction. I can't see how he is making a solid case at all. The most egregious to me is equating the Lazarus in the parable of "Lazarus and the rich man" in Luke with the Lazarus Jesus raised from the dead in John. He says the man in the parable is a fiction to prove a point: that dead person coming back from the dead would not be believed. Then Carrier argues that John made up Lazarus so that a man can come back from the dead negating Luke. Many problems with this. "Lazarus" was a common name...why assume that they were supposed to be the same person? Why assume that the Lazarus in the parable was made up? A parable does not presuppose a fictional story. The two men were very different. Lazarus in the parable was poor. The Lazarus who was in John was well-to-do...he had money and influence. Another point is we have no idea what Lazarus said or talked about when he came back. Ib did a post on this before but now I will post the video to go along.









Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Craig vs Carrier - Part 1